🚀 go-pugleaf

Help!

I have uncovered a strange problem on my 2.1 system. I have a user
called "janet" who can send mail to other users, but cannot read
mail. I have done all the usual things like checking to see that
the spool file /usr/spool/mail/janet is readable. /usr/ucb/Mail
works just fine for this user. Sendmail logs a good transaction when
mail is send to user "janet" and the message actually appears in
/usr/spool/mail/janet. I got really frustrated and backed up all
of "janets" files, deleted the user "janet" and reinstalled the
user "janet".

Any mail sent to "janet" including the preinstalled message from Steve
Jobs shows up the first time Mail is run by "janet". If the "new
mail" button is pressed, you get a beep, as expected. Now, if you 
delete the old mail from the Active.mbox and exit Mail, the next time
you run Mail, you cannot receive mail, and if you press the "new mail"
button, nothing happens. You get no beep and no new mail. If you send
a message to yourself, it does not appear in the Active.mbox even 
though it shows up in the /usr/spool/mail/janet file and sendmail has
logged the transaction with no errors. You can see the message with
/usr/ucb/Mail with no difficulty.

I have deleted and reinstalled user "janet" twice and seen the same 
symptoms. There are four other users on the system who can send and 
receive mail without any problems. What the heck is going on here? Is 
something inside Mail.app mangled?

Thanks,


-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Larry Gadallah				Internet: gadallah@wu2.wl.aecl.ca
AECL Research, Whiteshell 		DECnet:   WL::GADALLAHL
Computing Support 			Voice:    (204) 753-2311 x2603